Comprehensive Criminal Justice Planning-A New Challenge

1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-206
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Skoi
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Clearing House ◽  
General Improvement ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Consultation Services ◽  
Matching Grants

Under new federal legislation, the development of comprehen sive criminal justice plans will be a prerequisite for receipt of federal matching grants to strengthen state and local crime- control capabilities. This will be a difficult task in a national structure administered by a variety of disciplines, by numerous and often overlapping political jurisdictions, and with distinct subsystems for processing juvenile and adult offenders. The current status of criminal justice planning offers some guides, promising new instrumentalities, and the experience of federally financed planning in other fields to assist in the effort. However, few models of comprehensive criminal justice planning are available. A concerted program of technical assistance through training workshops, planning materials, and clearing-house and consultation services will be needed if the nation is to meet this challenge successfully. Finally, although the exact requirements of criminal justice planning will be determined by the final anticrime enactment, some basic requisites are likely to appear under any legislative formula. These include ( 1) a view of planning as a continuing process, (2) a bias toward the detail necessary to translate general improvement standards into solu tions workable for a given jurisdiction, (3) serious attention to all facets of criminal administration and a strong burden of justification for ignoring any, (4) a recognition in federal planning standards of the time needed to evolve and refine quality plans, (5) the establishment of planning machinery which involves all necessary competencies and is representative of all criminal justice interests, (6) well-designed and orderly programing for the planning mission, both in relation to long- term plans and annual action programs, and (7) the incorpora tion of explicit, quantified program goals and evaluative mechanisms capable of measuring their achievement.

Evaluating Criminal Justice Training Addressing AIDS Policy

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna T. Laszlo ◽  
Barbara E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Target Populations ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Probation And Parole ◽  
Aids Policy ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽  
Hiv Policies ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome

The AIDS Policy, Training, and Technical Assistance Project was designed to assist state and local criminal justice agencies to develop and implement human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV)-related policies for both clients and employees of the organization. The target populations for the project were policymakers and managers from law enforcement, corrections, probation and parole, victim assistance, pretrial services, and drug and alcohol treatment services. A model 3-day HIV policy training curriculum, AIDS: From Policy to Practice, was pilot tested through a series of six national workshops for senior level administrators representing the target populations. A 6-month follow-up of the participants indicated significant changes in knowledge and attitudes about HIV policies and more important, policymakers had actually written/revised/implemented HIV-related policies as a result of the training program.

scholarly journals MINDFUL PUNISHMENT: What to do about the South African penal system, and why

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd R Clear
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Penal System ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Penal Reform ◽  
New System

Penal reform is crucial to South Africa’s long term crime control and criminal justice agendas. This article shows how the penal system could respond more ethically without an overwhelming investment of new resources. There are two strategies South Africa can employ to create a ‘mindful’ penal system. First, the length of sentences must be reduced. Second, a viable new system of community based (non-prison) penalties must be created. Neither strategy will be easy, but doing one without the other will fail.

scholarly journals Current Status of State Policies That Support School-Based Health Centers

2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Schlitt ◽  
Linda J. Juszczak ◽  
Nancy Haby Eichner
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Provider Type ◽  
Sustainable Resources ◽  
School Year ◽  
School Based ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
School Based Health Centers

Objectives. This study explored the current status of the role of state school-based health center (SBHC) initiatives, their evolution over the last two decades, and their expected impact on SBHCs' long-term sustainability. Methods. A national survey of states was conducted to determine ( 1) the amount and source of funding dedicated by the state directly for SBHCs, ( 2) criteria for funding distribution, ( 3) designation of staff/office to administer the program, ( 4) provision of technical assistance by the state program office, ( 5) types of performance data collected by the program office, ( 6) state perspective on future outlook for long-term sustainability, and ( 7) Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) policies for reimbursement to SBHCs. Results. Nineteen states reported allocating a total of $55.7 million to 612 SBHCs in school year 2004–2005. The two most common sources of state-directed funding for SBHCs were state general revenue ($27 million) and Title V of the Social Security Act ($7 million). All but one of the 19 states have a program office dedicated to administering and overseeing the grants, and all mandate data reporting by their SBHCs. Sixteen states have established operating standards for SBHCs. Eleven states define SBHCs as a unique provider type for Medicaid; only six do so for SCHIP. Conclusions. In 20 years, the number of state SBHC initiatives has increased from five to 19. Over time, these initiatives have played a significant role in the expansion of SBHCs by earmarking state and federal public health funding for SBHCS, setting program standards, collecting evaluation data to demonstrate impact, and advocating for long-term sustainable resources.

A Systems Approach to Comprehensive Criminal Justice Planning

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick W. Howlett ◽  
Hunter Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Correctional Programs ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Control

The final report of the President's Crime Commission, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, underscored the necessity for comprehensive criminal justice planning at local, state, and national levels. Passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act resulted in the formation of a variety of state and local planning bodies, which were charged with considering all elements of law enforcement activity, including police, court, and correctional programs and systems in addition to prevention and control programs.

A Truce in Criminal Law’s Distributive Principle Wars?

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-583
Author(s):  
Paul H. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
A Value ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Past Wrongs

Crime-control utilitarians and retributivist philosophers have long been at war over the appropriate distributive principle for criminal liability and punishment, with little apparent possibility of reconciliation between the two. In the utilitarians’ view, the imposition of punishment can be justified only by the practical benefit that it provides: avoiding future crime. In the retributivists’ view, doing justice for past wrongs is a value in itself that requires no further justification. The competing approaches simply use different currencies: fighting future crime versus doing justice for past wrongs. It is argued here that the two are in fact reconcilable, in a fashion. We cannot declare a winner in the distributive principle wars but something more like a truce. Specifically, good utilitarians ought to support a distributive principle based upon desert because the empirical evidence suggests that doing justice for past wrongdoing is likely the most effective and efficient means of controlling future crime. A criminal justice system perceived by the community as conflicting with its principles of justice provokes resistance and subversion, whereas a criminal justice system that earns a reputation for reliably doing justice is one whose moral credibility inspires deference, assistance, and acquiescence, and is more likely to have citizens internalize its norms of what is truly condemnable conduct. Retributivists ought to support empirical desert as a distributive principle because, while it is indeed distinct from deontological desert, there exists an enormous overlap between the two, and it seems likely that empirical desert may be the best practical approximation of deontological desert. Indeed, some philosophers would argue that the two are necessarily the same.

Major Approaches to Assessing the Fiscal Sustainability of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 577-583
Author(s):  
L. A. Tuaeva ◽  
I. Z. Toguzova ◽  
S. K. Tokaeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State And Local

The presented study develops theoretical and methodological foundations for assessing the fiscal sustainability of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in perspective.Aim. The study aims to develop a systems approach to assessing the fiscal sustainability of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the medium and long term.Tasks. The authors analyze the major approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects and determine the significance of quantitative and qualitative assessment methods in the development of a methodology for assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects in the medium and long term.Methods. This study uses scientific methods of cognition, analysis and synthesis, comparison and analogy, systems and institutional approaches to assess the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects.Results. The authors examine the major approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects developed by Russian scientific schools and disciplines; approaches used by state and local authorities; approaches to assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects used by international and national rating agencies; foreign experience. In general, this implies the development of a universal system of indicators for assessing the fiscal sustainability of federal subjects.Conclusions. It is substantiated that under the current conditions of new challenges, particularly in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to assess the long-term balance and sustainability of the budgets of federal subjects using a systems approach based on quantitative and qualitative methods, making allowance for the medium- and long-term prospects to make efficient management decisions at different levels of the economic system.

scholarly journals Dryland Food Security in Ethiopia: Current Status, Opportunities, and a Roadmap for the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6503
Author(s):  
Yu Peng ◽  
Hubert Hirwa ◽  
Qiuying Zhang ◽  
Guoqin Wang ◽  
Fadong Li
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Zero Hunger ◽  
The Impact

Given the impact of COVID-19 and the desert locust plague, the Ethiopian food security issue has once again received widespread attention. Its food crisis requires comprehensive and systematic research to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger. This review discusses the current situation and the causes of food security in Ethiopia. We focus on the challenges in the food security assessment field. The article lists seven typical causes of food insecurity and three roots of food security in Ethiopia. Long-term food security assessment and a comprehensive understanding and manageability for food security causes are considered as the main existing research challenges. Climate-resilient management, water management, and long-term ecosystem network monitoring and data mining are suggested as potential roadmap for future research.

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